sko sig på
[ˈskʊːsɛ̝j pɔ]
The verdict
“sko sig på” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - einen unverdienten Gewinn machen; sich bereichern; sich einen unrechtmäßigen Gewinn oder Vorteil verschaffen; sein Schäfchen scheren, sein Schäfchen ins Trockene bringen, etwas ausbeuten; beim Verk...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sko sig på |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈskʊːsɛ̝j pɔ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sko sig på” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sko sig på is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈskʊːsɛ̝j pɔ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "einen unverdienten Gewinn machen; sich bereichern; sich einen unrechtmäßigen Gewinn oder Vorteil verschaffen; sein Schäfchen scheren, sein Schäfchen ins Trockene bringen, etwas ausbeuten; beim Verk...".
No misspelling variants are generated for sko sig på in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is sko sig på, spelled S-K-O- -S-I-G- -P-Å, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einen unverdienten Gewinn machen; sich bereichern; sich einen unrechtmäßigen Gewinn oder Vorteil verschaffen; sein Schäfchen scheren, sein Schäfchen ins Trockene bringen, etwas ausbeuten; beim Verkauf oder Aufkauf von Waren einen unerlaubten Gewinn machen; sich materielle Vorteile auf Kosten eines anderen verschaffen; „sich an etwas schuhen“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sko sig på”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-K-O- -S-I-G- -P-Å - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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